Shareholders, Lock-Up Agreement

Early Lock-Up Releases: Overview and Trends

Cooley LLP on 1/21/2025

Lock-up agreements prohibit company insiders (founders, directors, executive officers and major stockholders) and other pre-IPO stockholders from selling their shares for a period of time after an offering. Lock-ups are...more

Chancery Prioritizes Efficiency in Ruling on Discovery Motions

Morris James LLP on 9/20/2023

Brown v. Matterport, Inc., 2021-0595-LWW (Del. Ch. Jun. 5, 2023) - The plaintiff sued alleging that the defendants had used lockup restrictions to improperly prevent him from selling shares....more

The Latest and Greatest on Direct Listings: Direct Listings + Capital Raise, Lock-Up Agreements, COVID-19 and More

Fenwick & West LLP on 9/1/2020

Our last in a series of articles on direct listings noted that we were expecting significant regulatory developments to give companies more flexibility to pursue alternatives to a traditional initial public offering. Those...more

Transaction Highlights: Frigoglass Restructuring

A&O Shearman on 4/10/2018

Shearman & Sterling advised the Frigoglass Group on its successful capital restructuring (the “Restructuring”), which included the use of an English scheme of arrangement....more

Securities Commissions Provide Guidance on New Canadian Takeover Rules in Hostile Cannabis Bid

Bennett Jones LLP on 3/30/2018

For close to three months, M&A lawyers and other capital markets participants had been anxiously awaiting the release of written reasons from the Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”) and the Financial and Consumer Affairs...more

Corporate Finance Alert: Second Circuit Upholds District Court’s Facebook Lock-Up Ruling: Underwriters Not Subject to Group...

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 11/4/2016

On November 3, 2016, in Lowinger v. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit upheld a district court finding that customary initial public offering (IPO) lock-up agreements do not render parties...more

English Law Schemes of Arrangement: Class Composition

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 8/24/2016

Having received the sanction of antitrust regulators in Europe, the U.S., China and South Africa, the planned merger of brewing giants AB InBev and SABMiller was scrutinised this week by the High Court in London on a topic...more

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